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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out

 

By Mo Yan.

Published January, 2006

Shengsi Pilao. Translated into English as Life and Death are Wearing Me Out, by Howard Goldblatt.

In keeping with Mo Yan's characteristic themes, Shengsi Pilao is a story of peasants' lives between 1950 and 2000, narrated by an executed landlord who returns to the world reincarnated as a series of humble animals.

 

 


 
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